Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley
Valley residents are well aware of the effects of heavy rain when water and soil runoff of the land and rivers rise in the blink of an eye. On 20th July Simon Browning, our catchment advisor, gave a zoom presentation explaining how he hadRead More
Leave a comment West Country Rivers League Table. How Does Your River Compare? The overall score for the catchment is based on a year’s data, collected at all sites in the Sid waterbody. It is calculated from the observations and water quality results attained during a WestcountryRead More
Leave a comment Our next plant ID walk will be a gentle walk starting at Weston Car Park, Grammar Lane, Weston. The plan is to start at Weston car park, which is along eastern side of Weston Comb. Then we’ll follow the gentle path above the publicRead More
Leave a comment In 2018/19 the RSPB led a consultation on the future management of Firebeacon Hill near Sidmouth. The site has three compartments: The management plan that emerged from this process aims to create linked areas of lowland heath and wood pasture. This will increase biodiversityRead More
Leave a comment This report is the output of a site visit undertaken 29 November, 2022 by Bruno Vincent of the Wild Trout Trust, along the River Sid in Devon, at the request of the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group. It forms an extension to a previous AdvisoryRead More
Leave a comment Hedgehogs are in decline nationally. But we’ve had a good number of local sightings as this map shows. In our Sidford garden we get hedgehogs feeding most nights right up to Christmas and beyond. Now it’s February I’ve not seen one for about aRead More
2 responses THE BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH 2021 – A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE ED DOLPHIN FOR THE SID VALLEY BIODIVERSITY GROUP 1. INTRODUCTION The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch (BGB) is one of the largest citizen science projects in the world. For the last 40 years, thousands ofRead More
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This is the July 2021 update to the year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants being carried out by volunteers with the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group. Reports from previous months can be found on the Group’s website https://sidvalleybiodiversity.org/ and all of the group’s recordsRead More
Leave a comment For those who have not read our previous monthly reports, the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group is carrying out a year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants recording what is in flower each month. This is a citizen scientist project with volunteers from the groupRead More
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